Plants represent a vast, renewable resource and are well suited to provide sustainably for
humankind's transportation fuel needs. To produce infrastructure-compatible fuels from …

The primary obstacle to producing renewable fuels from lignocellulosic biomass is a plant's
recalcitrance to releasing sugars bound in the cell wall. From a sample set of wood cores …

The formation of pseudo-lignin by the combination of carbohydrate and lignin degradation
products has been proposed to be responsible for the increased Klason lignin content in …

Liquid hot water, steam explosion, and dilute acid pretreatments of lignocellulose generate
soluble inhibitors which hamper enzymatic hydrolysis as well as fermentation of sugars to …

Deconstruction of lignocellulosic plant cell walls to fermentable sugars by thermochemical
and/or biological means is impeded by several poorly understood ultrastructural and …

While many pretreatments attempt to improve the enzymatic digestibility of biomass by
removing lignin, this study shows that improving the surface area accessible to cellulase is a …

Lignin‐derived inhibition is a major obstacle restricting the enzymatic hydrolysis of cell wall
polysaccharides especially with softwood lignocellulosics. Enzyme adsorption on lignin is …

As an initial step in an alternative use of woody biomass to produce bioethanol, this work
was aimed at investigating the effect of hot compressed water (HCW) pretreatment within the …

Ground softwood Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) was treated with pressurized
saturated steam at 200− 220° C (1.6− 2.4 MPa) for 5− 10 min in a sealed container. The …

The objective of this research was to investigate cellulase adsorption and recycling during
enzymatic hydrolysis of two differently pretreated wheat straws (WS). Dilute acid treated WS …